Originally Posted By: comms
dont worry about the Mayan end of the world on 12/12/12 thing. the 3 guys who came up with that deal based on a single paragraph of tablet just said that they were off by as much as 200 years.

Is it a co-incidence that they state this two years before the date and they are all still alive? you decide.

I wouldn't worry much either. If I recall my college correctly (it's been a while), the poles have shifted in the past, several times. No, not recently. But we're all still around.

Honestly I'm not well versed in it, but I can't imagine it'd have any real noticable effects. The earth's magnetic field would still be around. I mean, an MRI machine has more magnetism than your typical baseline magnetic field.